Discover a curated list of career resources and support services for PhDs and academics considering a move outside academia or seeking a new career path.
Below, you’ll find a range of career services, newsletters, and communities tailored to the unique journey of leaving academia.
Types of Career Resources for PhDs
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- Academia or Industry? How I Learned to Pivot Between Them – A blog post on pivoting into industry and returning to academia, published on Science.org.
- Academics in the Wild – An initiative to support physicists and mathematicians transitioning to industry.
- After Academia – Career resources for non-academic job searches, curated by Ashley Ruba, PhD.
- After Your PhD (YouTube Channel) – Interviews with PhDs and academics in fulfilling careers.
- Alma.Me – Free Slack Community – A community for STEM, business, and health sciences PhDs.
- Alt-Ac Career Resources – American Studies Association’s resource list for alternative academic careers.
- Alt-Ac Jobs – Curated job board for alt-ac jobs.
- Astrobites – Grad Unions 101 – Blog post exploring graduate unions and unionization.
- Beyond Academia – UC Berkeley – Non-profit helping PhDs explore non-academic careers.
- Beyond Academia Group – LinkedIn group for industry-curious academics.
- Beyond the Professoriate – Career development for graduate students moving to industry.
- Blogging Beyond Academia – Cornell blog about careers beyond academia.
- Chronicle of Higher Education Job Board – 30,000+ job listings in higher education.
- Clueo Clinical – Helps people with limited experience start careers in clinical trials.
- Data Science Career Coaching (Dr. Adam Ross Nelson) – Coaching for aspiring data science & ML professionals.
- Employed Historian – Resources for humanities grads seeking non-academic careers.
- Forming a Student Workers Union: A Guide – A detailed guide for starting a student workers union.
- From PhD to Life – Career services platform by Jen Polk, PhD.
- Google Interview Guide – Interview tips directly from Google.
- Graduate Student Unions – Chronicle Package – Deep-dive resource pack on graduate student unions.
- High Impact Memes – Twitter/X account posting academic-life commentary.
- HigherEd+ Exiting Academia Interview Series – Interviews with PhDs who transitioned into industry.
- HigherEd+ Unlimited – 200+ online courses for academic career development.
- HirePhD – Non-profit helping PhDs transition to industry.
- HirePhD Talent Community – LinkedIn network for PhDs.
- How to Win Friends and Influence People – Foundational book on communication & influence.
- Industry Newsletter – UChicago – Industry career support for UChicago students.
- In and Out of Academia (Podcast Episode) – Episode on navigating academic exits.
- Kaidi Wu, Ph.D. – Career services + UX research career support.
- Leaving the Academy (Medium Post) – Mid-career story of leaving academia for industry.
- LinkedIn Profile Optimizer (Ellen Dobson) – AI tool to improve LinkedIn profiles.
- MeghanBPhD – Newsletter on DEI, workplace culture, leaving academia.
- Minerva Recruitment – Career services supporting marginalized scholars.
- MIT – How To Pivot into Industry – MIT resource on transitioning from academia to industry.
- Papa PhD – Podcast sharing PhD career journeys.
- PhD Careers Beyond Academia – Org supporting industry transitions.
- PhD Career Playbook – Paid step-by-step guide for industry transitions.
- PhD Gigs – Consulting & contract work platform for academics.
- PhD Jobs – Job board specializing in PhD roles.
- PhD Paths – Informational interviews covering diverse careers.
- PhD Project Job Board – Job board for PhD candidates.
- PhD to Industry Weekly Newsletter – Newsletter helping PhDs transition to industry.
- Publish Not Perish – Career & writing coaching newsletter.
- Recovering Academics – Private support community for academics leaving academia. (No public URL provided — add link before publishing.)
- Roostervane – Career site helping PhDs find meaningful work.
- Runaway Startup Postdocs – Startup incubator for recent PhDs (Cornell Tech).
- Sheryl Lieb – Academic Editor – Editing help for academics writing books.
- Stop Resisting Faculty Careers – Inside Higher Ed post discussing non-faculty paths.
- Surviving Burnout – Personal blog post on burnout.
- The Academic Designer – Helps academics build strong online presence.
- The Bold PhD – Career resource by Dr. Gertrude Nonterah.
- The PhD Pack – LinkedIn networking group for PhDs.
- The Professor is In Blog – Career advice for grads & new academics.
- The Professor Is Out – Facebook group for academics leaving academia.
- The Recovering Academic – Substack about life after academia.
- Trulitica – Biotech career coaching.
- USA Jobs Board – Federal job listings.
- Versatile PhD – Platform helping PhDs explore non-academic careers.